Re: 'snowstorm vs. blizzard'
| From: | Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 22, 2003, 14:43 |
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On Saturday 20 December 2003 11:15 am, Robert Jung wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My eight-year-old brother has a question: What's the difference between
"snowstorm" and "blizzard"?
>
> --Robert
Blizzard is to snowstorm as hurricane is to rainstorm, more or less. Stronger
winds and more likely to kill you than a generic storm. (Though the actual
speed of the winds in a blizzard don't usually reach hurricane levels, the
cold and nastier kinds of precipitation make up for it.)
Every blizzard is a snowstorm, but not all snowstorms are blizzards.
--
Elyse Grasso
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